How To Use Fire-eater In A Sentence
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Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.
Three Empires on the Nile
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I sang them the old hunting - song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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It is essential that we take no drastic actions that would please our own fire-eaters but would drive foreign states into the arms of the terrorists.
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a genuine fire-eater, especially when he had his "schnapps" on board, was cruising under the lee of Grenada, and fell in with a large ship, to which the frigate gave chase.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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I guess tomorrow night I'll pretend to be a snake charmer or a fire-eater, maybe the girl who rides the ponies backwards.
Tightrope
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Live music, funfairs and fire-eaters are among the attractions being lined up to celebrate Bonfire Night across the region tomorrow.
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But things hotted up with the onset of dusk, as strobe lighting and fire-eaters added atmosphere to the cavernous marquee that served as a dance floor.
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The people running the event were cheerful and friendly and they'd laid on fire-eaters and drummers to entertain us.
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For the children there were clowns, stilt walkers, magicians, fire-eaters and the real old favourite of a Punch and Judy show.
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Silver-coated mime artists, preening pipers and flaming fire-eaters clog every city thoroughfare.
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Less iconographically complex, though more symbolically resonant are her more recent large paintings of a female fire-eater in harlequin costume.
Artists: Contemporary Anglo.
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There's a real hustle-bustle to the city and scattered around its heart you'll find fire-eaters and jugglers.
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The parade will feature a samba band, fire-eaters, Gypsy Kate's magic show, and a fancy dress competition for adults and children.
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There is also a performance by a fire-eater who keeps the children on the edge of their seats.
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It was ironical that a self-proclaimed fire-eater should be sentenced to a diet of paper.
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Guests can enjoy nine bars and entertainment that includes live performances by acrobatic dancers and fire-eaters.
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For entertainment, there were Morris Dancers, fire-eaters, jugglers and an open air Carol concert accompanied by a brass band.
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I sang them the old hunting-song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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Visitors will be able stroll around the Gardens exploring the glasshouses lit up, accompanied by glass blowing demonstrations, fire-eaters and jugglers.
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Hey, d' you hear about the fire-eater who couldn't go anywhere without meeting an old flame?
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She writes of being a spectator in an exotic world of jugglers, tumblers, snake charmers, fire-eaters, and nautch girls.
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The parade featured jugglers, fire-eaters, stilt walkers, royal lookalikes, Wonder Woman and characters from the Wizard of Oz.
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The red sauce is very hot, so use less if your tongue is tender, more if you are a fire-eater.
One Big Table
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This year the traditional parade will be replaced by a colourful street carnival, complete with fire-eaters, trapeze artists, stilt acrobats and costumes galore.
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The evening begins with champagne and includes a four-course banquet, unlimited drinks and entertainment from minstrels, jesters and fire-eaters.
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The point is that the president is getting a team together of young fire-eaters that can work sixteen hour days up to and through the election.
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While my senses succumbed to the Indian fire-eaters, I raced to watch the rickshaws and road shows.
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All around me are jugglers and fortune-tellers, dancers and fire-eaters, and every few steps is another stall with a vendor eager to squeeze fresh orange juice.
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The "gallant failure" had been the biggest botch since the Kabul Retreat, thanks to the idiot Maximilian, who was damned if he'd be rescued, so there, and I'd come off by the skin of my chattering teeth and the good offices of that gorgeous little fire-eater, Princess Aggie Salm-Salm, and Jesus Montero's gang of unwashed bandits who were on hand only because Jesus thought I knew where Montezuma's treasure was cached, more fool he.
Watershed
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Whether we know it or not, the former fire-eater is now not just Ireland's best known actor, he's one of its biggest fans.
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Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
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An amazing, inspiring and amusing man of 53 who had begun performing as a teenage accordianist, fire-eater and stilt-walker in a Quebec park in 1983, joined with some twenty acrobatic friends to create a unique assemblage of street artists who first came to Los Angeles next year for a show, not even knowing if they had the fare to return home.
Jay Weston: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way
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Fire-eaters, escapologists and stilt walkers will all be on hand to provide entertainment.
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The 33-years-old muscleman, fire-eater and stripper's career is going from strength to strength, and the former structural engineer is taking advantage of his fame while it lasts.
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Not at all the fire-eater he has turned out to be lately.
"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 7
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Hey, d' you hear about the fire-eater who couldn't go anywhere without meeting an old flame?
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Take a warm starlit night in the desert, add hundreds of low tables of exotic food laid out on carpets on the sand, then bring on the belly-dancers, the camels and the fire-eaters.
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There are many moderate Republicans in Pennsylvania, probably not enough for Specter to have won his primary next year against fire-eater Pat Toomey of the Club for Growth, but certainly enough to have had a chance of victory and to have made a decent showing.
Bruce Ledewitz: Arlen Specter: The Pennsylvania Perspective
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Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
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If your budget allows, arrange for guests to be welcomed by some unusual meeters and greeters: think can-can girls and fire-eaters.
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Simmons, the Finance fire-eater, flushed angrily and snapped, "They'll never get an army across the Sinai.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Medieval games, fire-eaters, stalls and music will greet visitors to Chipping Norton on May Bank Holiday Monday, when the town celebrates the 800th anniversary of its ancient fair charter.
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So, if any one wants to fight, "-- he looked at Raventik here, but that fire-eater happened to be absent-minded at the moment, and sat with downcast eyes, --" _to fight_, "he repeated with emphasis," he will have to remain at home and fight the walrus -- or the women!
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
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It was ironical that a self-proclaimed fire-eater should be sentenced to a diet of paper.
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Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.
Peter Diamandis: Gold Rush on the Moon
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China had given him the misguided notion that I was the devil's own fire-eater, and just the chap to have on hand when Fuzzy charged the square.
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